1. It’s Illegal to Tap Your Foot to Music in a Tavern Yes, really. A long-standing law bans patrons from keeping time to music in restaurants and bars—so don’t even think about bobbing your head to ...

New Mexico: land of enchantment, alien sightings, green chile worship, and— believe it or not—laws that are just as offbeat as a Roswell souvenir shop. From camel restrictions to courtroom footwear ...

Pennsylvania runs from the skyscrapers of Philadelphia to the quiet farms of Lancaster County, with mountains, gorges, and small towns filling in everything between. The state has 124 parks spread ...

Northeastern California does not get the attention it deserves. Out in Lassen County, a 25.4-mile trail follows the Susan River through a canyon lined with rock outcrops, pine forests, and mountain ...

Kentucky has a waterfall that makes rainbows at night. Not a trick, not a light show, just water and moonlight doing something that happens in only one other place on earth. Cumberland Falls drops 68 ...

In 1539, a Moroccan slave named Estevanico met his end at Hawikuh, a Zuni pueblo in what is now New Mexico. He had lived through the failed Narváez trek of 1527, then spent eight years crossing the ...

North Dakota hides a $6 billion Cold War relic that lived for just one day. In 1970, workers began building the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex near Nekoma – a massive concrete pyramid with ...

New Jersey: where the diners are 24/7, the traffic is relentless, and the laws? Oh, they’re very Jersey. While the Garden State is famous for Bruce Springsteen, boardwalks, and bagels, it’s also home ...

In the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania sits a town that looks like it belongs in the Alps. Jim Thorpe, formerly called Mauch Chunk (meaning ‘Sleeping Bear’ in the Lenni Lenape language), got its new ...

Every Saturday morning in Kahului, more than 200 vendors spread out across the parking lot of the University of Hawaii Maui College, and thousands of people show up to walk the rows. Locals. Visitors.

Oklahoma: where the wind comes sweeping down the plain—and so do some absolutely bizarre laws. Known for its cowboy culture, tornado drills, and more roadside pecan stands than you can count, the ...

Tennessee: where the barbecue is smoky, the music never stops, and the laws? Let’s just say some of them could use a remix. While the Volunteer State gave us Elvis, Dollywood, and the Grand Ole Opry, ...